Last year, scientists described a weird goblin shark in a scientific journal despite never setting eyes on it. Experts now question the review process that approved the study.
In August 2020, a strange, long-nosed creature washed up on a beach in Greece and caught the attention of a passerby. Giannis Papadakis photographed the specimen and sent it to a team of scientists, who identified it as a remarkably preserved juvenile goblin shark .
So how could an ostensible plastic toy be identified as a rare shark specimen in a scientific journal? Not a fish out of waterThe original authors doubled down in a rebuttal earlier this month. They said the shark was not 2.6 feet long, as they initially estimated, but a 7-inch embryo. This has also now been retracted, but the back and forth over the mystery goblin shark had started filtering out to the wider scientific community.
While other features pointed out by Pollerspӧck and his colleagues, such as the shark's unnatural posture, protruding jaws and lack of damage have been found in real life specimens, the overall consensus is that the"goblin shark" isn't in fact a goblin shark, experts told Live Science. But in the case of the goblin shark, not one scientist actually saw the creature that caused such a stir.
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